[MPlayer-dev-eng] talk on mplayer and xine.

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:22:13AM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>> I have been asked to present a short (4 slide) talk on mplayer and xine.
> 
> Out of curiosity: Where?

FOMS
http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/SubjectEntries

I am there mainly for ALSA, but as I have worked on xine a lot, and we 
collaborate a lot with mplayer, I am also doing a quick session on xine 
and mplayer.

> 
> I'd also be interested to see your slides if you care to share them.

No problem. I am planning to write the slides in early Jan.

> 
>> I was wondering if contributors to the mplayer project could provide 
>> some input indicating your views on the following points so that I can 
>> accurately present mplayer project's point of view, and not just my own:
>>
>>   1. Focus and activity - describe the areas that your project is
>> focusing and working on. This will put your goals and contributions in
>> context for other participants.
> 
> Format support, speed, ease of use.  I envision a day when we can
> correctly play any multimedia format just by typing
> 
>   mplayer <file/URL>
> 
> ideally without having to resort to binary codecs.
> 
>>   2. Problem areas - describe problems that your project has
>> encountered, things that are not working or not available. These items
>> will contribute to a gap analysis and areas for further discussion.
> 
> The potential for code cleanup is virtually unlimited, but of course we
> suffer from the bane of all OSS projects with the prominent exception of
> the Linux kernel: lack of manpower.
> 
>>   3. Dependencies - describe the organizations, projects and
>> components that your project depends on. This helps everyone
>> understand the map of the community.
> 
> MPlayer should be straightforward to build as it comes bundled with
> most multimedia libraries (FFmpeg etc) it requires.  Apart from the
> raw sources you will need zlib, FreeType for TrueType font support, X11
> libs if you want X11 video outputs, etc.
> 
>>   4. Next steps - suggest concrete goals and objectives that you wish
>> to see followed.
> 
> Continue development in small steps.  This is the way we have worked the
> past few years and once you look back a release or two you notice you
> have accomplished quite a bit.  For the medium term future I would like
> to see proper support for DVD menus added.  It looks as though this goal
> will be attained eventually.
> 
> Diego

Thank you all for the feedback. I know exactly how difficult DVD menus 
are, because I added that feature to xine at the same time I was working 
on libdvdnav, and it required a lot of work in xine to get it working 
well. I used xine to test the libdvdnav lib.

Once I have done the slides, I will let everyone see them.

James